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W. WHARTON, J12, & E. SAMUEL.

CABLE RAILWAY Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

' llivirsn STATES PATENT tries.

WVILLIAM WVHARTON, J R, AND EDWARD SAMUEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO WILLIAM WHARTON, JR, 8t CO, (LIMITED,)

OF SAME PLACE.

CABLE RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,984, dated April 14, 1885. Application filed February 3, 1885. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM Wnantron, J r., and EDWARD SAMUEL, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadel phia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Cable Railways, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of the combination of A are the two sills of a street-railway track,

and D the cable-conduit, which in the present instance is made in accordance with the patent of A Bonzano, No. 287,220, dated October 23,1883. A tie-rod, G, connected to one side of this conduit, passes freely through the sill A, and through the curbstone V, on one side of the street, a similar rod, G, connected to the opposite side of the conduit, passing freely through the sill A, and through the curbstone W on the otherfside of the street, each rod being in this case threaded and furnished with a nut, a, so that the rod can be adjusted in length. In other words, one side of the conduit is anchored to one curbstone, and the other side to the opposite curbstone, of the street by the aforesaid rods G G, the object of this being to maintain the opposite sides of the conduit in their proper position, and to keep the slot in the top of the conduit at a uniform width without interfering with the permanency of the track.

In the patent of William Wharton, Jr., No. 281,593, July 17, 1883, the conduit is adjustably anchored to the sills of the track; but it has been found that during a frost there is a tendency of the opposite sides of the conduit to approach each other, owing to the ex pansion of the soil, thereby contracting the slot in the top of the conduit and often displacing the sills of the track.

The stay-rods G tend to maintain the slot at a uniform width, and the rods may be made adjustable in length, should adjust-ability in the width of the slot be required.

"While the curbstones often afford the best medium for the anchorage of the rods, they are not essential to the carrying out of our invention. Indeed, there are many instances in which there are no cnrbstones to afford an anchorage for the rods. In Fig. 3 we have shown how the rod anchored to the conduit and inclined so as to entirely clear the sills may be anchored to a slab, H, embedded in the ground, the slab being of wood, stone, or iron, or it may be of artificial stone or earthenware. Indeed, it is immaterial how or to what the rods may be anchored, providing they are independent of the sills of the track.

In Fig. 3 each stay-rod is rendered adj ustable by making it in two sections, and connecting the threaded ends of the two sections together by a common right-andleft screwcoupling, w, to which access may be had after removing a portion of the pavement and soil. It is always best, however, to make provision for gaining ready access to the adjusting appliances. Thus, in Figs. 1 and 2, where a nut, a, on the inner side of each curbstone is used as a means of adjusting each stay-rod, a cavity, m, is made in the sidewalk near the curb, and lined and furnished with a cover, n, on removing which a wrench may be applied to the nut.

A cast-iron box, T, Fig. 4, maybe embedded in the soil and furnished with a hinged cover, t, which when closed is flush, or nearly so, with the upper surface of the pavement, the threaded end of the stay-rod passing through one side of this box, and being provided with a nut, a, or a taper key or other adjustable fastening may be used in place of a nut.

The stay-rods may be permanently anchored at their outer ends and adjustably secured at their inner ends to the conduit by devices which readily suggest themselves to expert mechanics.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination of the sills and conduit of a cable road with stay-rods connected to the conduit and anchored to the road inde- In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of IO two subscribing witnesses.

\VILLIAM VVHARTON, JR.

5 pendently of the sills, substantially as set forth. EDWD. SAMUEL. Witnesses:

HARRY SMITH, HENRY HoWsoN, Jr. I

2. The combination of the conduit of a cable road with adjustable stay-rods anchored to the road-bed, substantially as specified. 

